2007-12-20 03:19:29 · 8 answers · asked by zeht89 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Who created words? Letters? A whole language?
2007-12-20 03:25:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"God" is the English name for Him, similar to the German word "Gott". It's interesting how various languages have translated God: Dios, Dieu, Bog, Theos, and so forth. Just look at the first few pages of any Gideon Bible you find in a hotel room and see John 3:16 in many languages.
2007-12-20 03:29:37 · answer #2 · answered by Brother Jonathan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the etymology of the word. The earliest known Germanic precedent for the English word "god" is Ç¥uÄan (from Proto-Germanic). A lot of linguists think that this word derived from the Proto-Indo-European form ǵhu-tó-m, which meant something along the lines of "to call" or "to invoke". Hope this helps.
2007-12-20 03:22:23 · answer #3 · answered by smcwhtdtmc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word God is not a name. It's a positional indentifier like saying King or Queen.
2007-12-20 03:26:26 · answer #4 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Etymology of 'god':
O.E. god "supreme being, deity," from P.Gmc. *guthan (cf. Du. god, Ger. Gott, O.N. guð, Goth. guþ), from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (cf. Skt. huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke." But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- "poured," from root *gheu- "to pour, pour a libation" (source of Gk. khein "to pour," khoane "funnel" and khymos "juice;" also in the phrase khute gaia "poured earth," referring to a burial mound). "Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound" [Watkins]. Not related to good. Originally neut. in Gmc., the gender shifted to masc. after the coming of Christianity. O.E. god was probably closer in sense to L. numen. A better word to translate deus might have been P.Gmc. *ansuz, but this was only used of the highest deities in the Gmc. religion, and not of foreign gods, and it was never used of the Christian God. It survives in Eng. mainly in the personal names beginning in Os-.
2007-12-20 03:26:04 · answer #5 · answered by Karen G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stems from different Indo-Germanic roots meaning "to shine" or "give light".
The modern word 'god' originates in the ancient word for 'sun'.
2007-12-20 03:25:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not sure. God decided that was His name. No one was around to name Him. He has always existed before time began.
2007-12-20 03:25:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was a VH1 reality show called. Name that Deity. I think the winner's name was Jerry Godlieb.
2007-12-20 03:22:39 · answer #8 · answered by Jerry M 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋